Gabriel Garcia Marquez'
Love in the Time of Cholera is on sale for $2.99 at Amazon. I've read some Gabriel Garcia Marquez and think he's a terrific writer. But somehow I've missed his two masterpieces, this and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
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In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs--yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.
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